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<span class="top">The Book of John</span><HR NOSHADE>
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<a href="B43C002.html">2</a>
<a href="B43C003.html">3</a>
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<a href="B43C008.html">8</a>
<a href="B43C009.html">9</a>
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<a href="B43C011.html">11</a>
<a href="B43C012.html">12</a>
<a href="B43C013.html">13</a>
<a href="B43C014.html">14</a>
<a href="B43C015.html">15</a>
<a href="B43C016.html">16</a>
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<td class="v">5:1</td>
<td>After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.</td>
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<td class="v">5:2</td>
<td>Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.</td>
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<td class="v">5:3</td>
<td>In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.</td>
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<td class="v">5:4</td>
<td>For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.</td>
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<td class="v">5:5</td>
<td>And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.</td>
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<td class="v">5:6</td>
<td>When Jesus saw him lie, and knew that he had been now a long time in that case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be made whole?</td>
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<td class="v">5:7</td>
<td>The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.</td>
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<td class="v">5:8</td>
<td>Jesus saith unto him, Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.</td>
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<td class="v">5:9</td>
<td>And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.</td>
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<td class="v">5:10</td>
<td>The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.</td>
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<td class="v">5:11</td>
<td>He answered them, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.</td>
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<td class="v">5:12</td>
<td>Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee, Take up thy bed, and walk?</td>
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<td class="v">5:13</td>
<td>And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.</td>
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<td class="v">5:14</td>
<td>Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.</td>
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<td class="v">5:15</td>
<td>The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.</td>
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<td class="v">5:16</td>
<td>And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.</td>
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<td class="v">5:17</td>
<td>But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.</td>
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<td class="v">5:18</td>
<td>Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.</td>
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<td class="v">5:19</td>
<td>Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.</td>
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<td class="v">5:20</td>
<td>For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.</td>
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<td class="v">5:21</td>
<td>For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.</td>
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<td class="v">5:22</td>
<td>For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:</td>
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<td class="v">5:23</td>
<td>That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.</td>
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<td class="v">5:24</td>
<td>Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.</td>
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<td class="v">5:25</td>
<td>Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.</td>
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<td class="v">5:26</td>
<td>For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;</td>
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<td class="v">5:27</td>
<td>And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.</td>
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<td class="v">5:28</td>
<td>Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,</td>
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<td class="v">5:29</td>
<td>And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.</td>
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<td class="v">5:30</td>
<td>I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.</td>
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<td class="v">5:31</td>
<td>If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.</td>
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<td class="v">5:32</td>
<td>There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.</td>
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<td class="v">5:33</td>
<td>Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.</td>
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<td class="v">5:34</td>
<td>But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.</td>
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<td class="v">5:35</td>
<td>He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.</td>
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<td class="v">5:36</td>
<td>But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.</td>
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<td class="v">5:37</td>
<td>And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.</td>
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<td class="v">5:38</td>
<td>And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.</td>
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<td class="v">5:39</td>
<td>Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.</td>
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<td class="v">5:40</td>
<td>And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.</td>
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<td class="v">5:41</td>
<td>I receive not honour from men.</td>
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<td class="v">5:42</td>
<td>But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.</td>
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<td class="v">5:43</td>
<td>I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.</td>
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<td class="v">5:44</td>
<td>How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?</td>
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<td class="v">5:45</td>
<td>Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.</td>
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<td class="v">5:46</td>
<td>For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.</td>
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<td class="v">5:47</td>
<td>But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?</td>
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